Tuesday 10 June 2008

Go there, do that

If your institution's web presence currently consists of a website and an e-newsletter and you're wondering how to step outside the boundaries of your URL, look no further - do I have the conference for you.

The Transforming Cultural and Scientific Communication conference is being held in Melbourne, 5-6 March 2009. The conference is chaired by Angelina Russo, who works closely with Seb Chan (who's a bit of a rockstar, really, from where I sit).

You can see what the 2008 conference covered on the Social Media and Cultural Communication blog. The themes for the 2009 conference are:

Digital Change Promotion organisational change and new business models
Branding the Cultural Experience interactive strategies for brand building
Implementing a Networked Communication Strategy increasing participation through social networks
Social Media and Public Programming communicating discipline knowledge online.

If you want to get a feeling for the kind of things that are likely to be discussed at the conference, I'd take a look at the following:

> Shelly Bernstein (Brooklyn Museum) on the Museum's Web 2 activities

> Seb Chan on using social media, social media & web strategy, and resourcing for social media

> Seb and Angeline's slides from their Museums & the Web 2008 social media workshop (PDF)

And if you're not sure what I mean by 'web presence' as opposed to 'website', here's a couple of examples.

MASS MOCA, like a number of other American institutions, has a Flickr pool.

Kaliman Gallery in Sydney has just announced their Facebook presence. (BTW, Julian Dashper's show at Kaliman finishes this week).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Sounds like fun. I have heard that Melbourne is a great city, too.
I like the sound of their "New Literacy, New Audiences" project. My favorite research report (yes, I can have one of those) is Henry Jenkins' New Media Literacies Whitepaper "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century". Thanks for the tip!

Courtney Johnston said...

Thanks back, Timothy. The whitepaper's gone into my ma.gnolia reading stash.

Melbourne is a fabulous city. The State Library of Victoria is quite an eye-opener: great mixture of the original (the beautiful barrel-domed reading room) and the modernised (the big general reference area). I'd totally recommend a prof dev / research trip.